One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren't theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I'm locking up my bike.
Doubly sad too, since some people don't have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.
If you have to hope, it probably doesn't.
I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.
Er, sorry. Misspoke. Ground-based telescopes!
I don't need a folder right now, but that's good to know in case I need to hop on a bus with a bike for work :)
It's great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/
Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.
In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn't remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don't, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.
Damn, they have some folding bikes on sale for $419. That is shockingly affordable.
Poor man. I wish the Project Veritas "journalist" a very interesting life for inflicting so much pain and suffering on some normal person.
Oooh, you guys are scraping the vertical paint for zippers. Our city dabbled with zippers, but immediately had to put orange cones up, as drivers just ran over them. Zippers would be much more effective if they were rotated 90ยฐ so that they were head on instead of a glancing blow to cars.
But at that point, you might as well throw in concrete crash barriers or orange construction barriers instead. Zippers don't really do much.
Or flexposts covered in anti-slip, high grit sandpaper.
The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York's streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can't.
The future of personal mobility shouldn't be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don't spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.
This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.
The other thing that's kinda cool is that you get to see a bunch of people who normally are kinda invisible, but make up a considerable part of your city and life. It's incredibly fun to see people from all walks of life and backgrounds all having fun together. It makes us all stronger and more unified. It reminds me that we absolutely can do anything when we all work together as a team. Also, about 60% of the crowd there is probably running your city's IT infrastructure ;)
Nobody shot off fireworks here because of the grave situation in our country. Just an eerie hush over the city. We've lived here for 60 years and never seen anything like 2025.